Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-03-03
CASUALTIES.

CASUALTIES.
Six Out Of q Party of Seven Boys Killed by
aPaasenger Train-Other Casualties.
EAsToN. Pa, Feb. 2S.-Six boys were
killed on the Lehigh Valley road near Cham
Dam about three miles from here yester-
day afternoon by passenger train. Their
| names were: Walter Walters, son Of S.
Walters, aged twelve; Walter Heath, son
eff Conductor Heath Of the EastOn street
car line; Walter Pearce, aged twelve, son
of Engineer Dick Pearce, of the Jersey Gen.
trail road; John Gregg, aged fifteen, Charles
Boustein, aged fifteen, and Manning CARTS,
aged twelve. There were seven in the
party and all lived in Easton. The boys
left town in the morning and walked to
Chain Dam to hunt muskrats They started
for home about one o'clock and walked in
the center of the down track. A coal train
came along and while it was passing them
on short curve the passenger train struck
them. Six of the party were knocked either
between the tracks or against the side of
the coal train. The seventh-Harry Pearce
was struck by his brother and knocked
from the track uninjured. The passen-
ger train was stopped and backed to
| where the bodies lay. Manning CARTS
was still alive but died soon after. All
the bodies were placed in small building
near the depot The skulls of all the boys
were crushed and mangled. The engineer
of the passenger train said: 81 left Bethle-
hem seven minutes late, and was running
at reduced speed on account of the blind
ing snow storm, which prevented me from
seeing any thing on the track. knew moth
ing about the accident until my fireman
called to me to stop, that had just struck
lot of men, he supposing that they were
men employed on the track" Harry
Pearce, after falling, jumped to his feet,
caught hold of his dead brother, shook him
and said: "Get up, what are you lying here
fori" He then saw his brothers. horribly
mangled head and burst into tears. One OF
the boys had one arm and both legs broken.
An inquest was held and the employees of
the railroad company were exonerated from
all blame. The accident occurred on
sharp curve in a binding snow storm which
prevented the engineer from seeing the
boys and the boys from seeing the train.
while the roar of the freight train prevented
them from hearing the other one.
FLEET ADRIFT.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb 2S.-About four
"
came floating down the Monongahela river
When they neared the point they struck
feet of eleven loaded coal barges and three
empties, cutting the mooring lines The en-
tire feet, with three bumpers named John
Kelly, John Marker and James Henderson,
who were at work on the barges at the
time, started down the Ohio river and had
not been heard from at midnight. Several
steamers are in pursuit, however, and it is
thought the men will be rescued and some
Of the barges saved. The eleven barges
contained 1,5OO, 600 bushels of coal, valued at
s14, 400
ROTTEN BRIDGE.
NEEDLES, Cal, Feb. 2S.-The east bound
Atlantic Il Pacific tram, Cue here at 9:4S
last evening, ran into a bridge four miles
west of this place. The engine, baggage
car, mail and express cars caught fire and
were totally consumed. E. G. Gilbert,
brakeman, was burned to death, as were al
so two Indians and one tramp, and Engineer
E. j. HodgdOn is not expected to live. E.
L. Peppin, mail agent, and j. j. Dickinson
were seriously hurt. DR.. M. j. Chase. OF
Galesburg, Ill, was bruised about the he
and w. Marsh, of Quincy, Ill, had leg
hurt. Very little express, baggage OF mail
was saved.
FISHERMEN IN DANGER.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 2S.-The Buffalo
fishermen have had three close calls here
this winter from perlshing on the ice-twice
through shoves or breaking-ups-and again
Saturday afternoon through a binding
snowstorm. Sixteen men were missing all
day, but twelve of them turned up last even
ing, having driven in from Hamburg, a
point fifteen miles up the lake, where they
managed to reach land. Four are still I'M
accounted for. and are supposed to have
been frozen to death on the Ice. The names
of two of them are Thomas Cody ard John
Leary. The others are Poles, who are I'M
known.
EXPLODED ITS BOILER.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-Shortly after five
o'clock Saturday evening engine 80, of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, .M-
ploded its boiler at the Polk-strect depot.
The engineer, Augustus Weingcr, and fire
man, G. w. Lowe, were killed, the bcSy of
the former being blown intoa hundred frag
ments, while that of the latter was hurled
through the roof of the depot, siXty-fve
feet, falling afterward through the roof
again into the depot. Both men were from
Momence, Ill. The houses in the vicinity of
the depot had their windows badly shat
tered by the explosion.
SPRUNG LEAK.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 2S-The mammoth |
steam barge Cumberland lying at Moffatt's
wharf, with cargo of 10000 bushels of
wheat in her hold, sprung leak last night |
and this morning was found to be sinking.
At nine tug with diver and steam pumps |
on board started up the river to try and
keep her afloat. At that hour she was |
down from eight to ten feet and was
gradually sinking. 1t was one of the finest |
vessels on the lakes, was owned principally |
by Joseph Gilchrist, of Vermillion, O., and |
was valued at $125. 600.
FELL THROUGH TRESTLE.
GALENA, Ill, Feb. 27.-Michael Walsh, an |
old section hand on the Illinois Central rail |
road, fell through a trestle last night while |
walking along the track at Council Hill, |
near this city, and was killed. His dead |
body was found on the ice below this morn
ing. Walshis said to have been intoxicated |
at the time of the accident.
Irish Troubles.
DUBLIN, Feb. 26.-While force of 200 po-
licemen was making a seizure on the No
lan-Earrell estate at RallvhauntS County /